Quotes by Buckminster Fuller
Why free energy has not "emerged"
Submitted by esaruoho on March 25, 2008 - 12:52My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday
Submitted by esaruoho on March 25, 2008 - 12:37It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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What is taught as obvious and what is truth?
Submitted by esaruoho on March 25, 2008 - 12:06Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
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Buckminster Fuller's view on the educational process vs. intuition
Submitted by esaruoho on March 25, 2008 - 12:04What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Spaceship Earth MUST be perceived as a whole spaceship and us with a common fate. everybody OR nobody.
Submitted by esaruoho on March 25, 2008 - 12:04We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Architects of the future - not its victims
Submitted by esaruoho on March 25, 2008 - 12:03We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting
Submitted by esaruoho on March 25, 2008 - 12:01Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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On how to be optimally effective
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To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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The metaphysical
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What would I do?
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Choice between killingry and livingry
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And the Earthian passengers who know about it, are doing nothing about it.
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You must choose between making money and making sense
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Man is designed to be a success just like the hydrogen atom is designed to be a success
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Opt for integrity
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(He embarked on a search)
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The motivating factor
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What is near extinction?
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Better designers than God?
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Overspecialization leads to extinction
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There is something patently insane about...
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...specialization precludes comprehensive thinking....
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Think of it.
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